Lambeth potteries

Illustration of a Lambeth pottery from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Doré, 1872. There were a number of potteries operating in Lambeth including James Stiff and Sons, Stephen Green's Imperial Pottery, and Doultons. Jerrold does not identify the pottery visited but a few years later, in 1878, Edward Walford in 'Old and New London' (volume 6 p. 424) was describing Doultons as the chief Lambeth pottery: 'The chief work in this line [pottery manufacture] now carried on in Lambeth is at the pottery of the Messrs. Doulton, the producers of the celebrated Lambeth faience, and whose name is worthy of record as the revivers, in the last few years, of the manufacture of Flemish and German stoneware, which promise to make the name of Lambeth celebrated once more in the annals of art'.